The 60 million-euro summer signing from Atletico Madrid took his time to get going, but eventually found the back of the net

By Sam Lee

Jul 27, 2013 2:12:00 PM

The 27-year-old, who this week denied claims that he is in fact 29,
took a while to get going at the sharp end of the Ligue 1 club's
attack, but added to Layvin Kurzawa's goal before the break, and a
late addition by Marcel Tisserand, to give Claudio Ranier's men the
win.

The second half became something of a non-event when Ranieri made
11 substitutions all in one go just after the hour mark, but the
first half provided some good attacking intent from both
sides.

Indeed, Matty James forced a good save from visiting goalkeeper
Danijel Subastic in the second minute after arriving late into the
box, before Lucas Ocampos fired one over at the other end.

On eight minutes, Joao Moutinho forced Kasper Schmeichel into a
decent save with an effort from 20 yards out, allowing the visitors
to take the lead from the resulting corner. Former Porto man
Moutinho whipped his set-piece into the near post, where it was met
by the head of Kurzawa.

Falcao, a 60 million euro signing from Atletico Madrid, had a
disappointing opening period. First he headed a Moutinho free kick
over the crossbar under pressure from Zak Whitbread after 23
minutes, and then saw his low shot blocked by Wes Morgan after the
ball broke loose in the area.

The Colombian then forced Schmeichel to pull one of his father's
trademark saves out of the bag, the Dane sprawling at the striker's
feet to smother with any part of his anatomy necessary.

Monaco eventually grabbed a second. After getting involved in the
build-up play, Falcao took up his position in the box, and when
Andrea Raggi's low cross was dummied by Yannick Carrasco, the
Colombian was left with a simple tap-in from six yards.

The hosts rang the changes at halftime, and one of those
replacements, Anthony Knockaert, almost pulled one back when his
shot deflected off Eric Abidal, only for the ball to drop just wide
of the post.

It was the game that dropped off after that point, with Monaco
happy to sharpen its one-touch passing ability. And if the tempo
was not already slow, it certainly was when Ranieri substituted his
entire team after 65 minutes.

The Foxes took advantage of the visitors' malaise, but Neil Danns'
goalbound shot was blocked by the back of his teammate Knockaert.
Almost as if to remind the fans there was a game on, Valere Germain
had a low snap-shot saved by Schmeichel at the other end.

Jeff Schlupp spooned an effort into the crowd with eight minutes on
the clock, and that looked to be that, until Tisserand was slipped
in by Emmanuel Riviere on the left, allowing him to beat his man
and hook a shot past a flailing Schmeichel to wrap things up. Follow GOAL.COM on